Company Description
Are you a leader looking for your next challenge?
Are you a person with great business sense and strong analytical skills?
If so this could be the position for you!
We are looking for an Area Controller to join our Area Team based in Milan responsible for stores in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece.
This role will report into Area Manager and is offered on a full-time permanent local contract.
As an Area Controller, you are responsible to secure the best possible customer experience throughout the stores in your area, while delivering expected profitability by setting and analysing financial goals, planning and forecasting sales figures and expenses.
**About COS**
**Job Description**:
- Work with the area manager/store managers to create annual and quarterly sales budgets, utilizing historical data, known events and benchmarking.
- Monitor, analyze, and benchmark weekly / daily sales plans and results for each store.
- Work in partnership with each store manager to ensure an effective schedule is in place to guarantee a high level of customer service.
- Work with selling reports, budgets and other available tools to make business decisions regarding allocations and stock levels.
- Perform a monthly review of all variable costs and investigate any irregularities.
- Ensure each store is following the correct operational routines, including delivery, replenishment and cash handling.
- Partner with each store manager and cash office responsible to coordinate annual inventories.
- Partner with the area HR manager to Identify future talent and formulate clear and challenging goals to assist with their development
- Train and develop store teams in staff planning, profit & loss and scheduling.
**Qualifications**:
- At least 1 year of past retail management experience
- Bachelor's degree, within finance, business or economics major (preferable)
- Fluent in English both written and verbal
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills
- Fashion awareness
- Proven organizational, analytical and decision-making abilities
- Sales driven and result oriented
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Willingness to travel ( 50% of time)
- Ability to use own initiative and work as part of team
- Excellent communication skills
Additional Information
When you first join COS we will give you a full training plan and access to our E-Learning tool.
In addition to this you will also receive some fantastic benefits including;
- 25% staff discount on all H&M Group brands.
- A generous holiday entitlement.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- A range of long service benefits.
Over the last 10 years we have carefully built a culture where our people are supported, inspired and encouraged to be the best they can.
Our brand is creative, forward thinking and modern; choosing longevity over passing trends.
We set the bar high at COS; we are committed to recruiting great people, offering an environment where talent is recognised and valued.
We believe that a diverse workforce plays an important role in the success of COS. We celebrate individual differences and appreciate the contribution that all our colleagues make.